[Skybird]

The result of too less education and/or too much pedagogics and missing deterrance of the legal system.

The symptom of bystanders and groups witnessing a crime not doing anything, not even calling help, is not new to social psychology. Even murder could happen with people just looking, doing nothing.

Concerning myself, I learned by experience that the more people are around me, the less help I could expect in case I would need help. the bigger the group, the more rason the individual has to assume tha he/she doesnot count, and any of the other would do something. But today, our societies also live by the principle of cowardice, and de facto weakness. Responsibility is delegated to others, and is handed over to institutions. If you pick up respinsibility yourself, you couldf even end up seeing yourself in conflict with the law, and social standards.

It makes me sick. qweakness is no virtue, and no sign of civilisation. It never is anything else but - weakness. Many of us feel the lack there is. That'S why it gives us a feeling of satisfaction to celebrate non-conformist people that dare to violate the expected victim-role, and that we then label as "heroes", like the captain and that crew of that US freighter that just got hijacked and where the crew fought back instead of turning into a flock of sheep.

P.S. The Public Transportation Service BVG in Berlin has many dozens of cases from the past months only where juveniles attacked the bus drivers, beat and kicked them, spitting at them, pulling their hairs, etc. Often it is filmed via cellphones. It has become an epidemic problem in Berlin. They now have started to add plexiglass "armour" around the driver's cabin in busses.

there is more behind it as if it could be solved by courts alone. It is reaching deep into our rotting societies and failing social standards that are the symptom of our falling civilisation.